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What would happen if one day, your computer’s hard drive crashed, your computer got infected by a virus, or a fire, flood or any other natural disaster were to destroy everything on your computer? Valuables can be lost such as written documents, letters, school reports, and memorable pictures. Pictures that, once lost, can never be taken again as easily as an email can be rewritten. Without a safe and secure backup to replace the contents of your computer in any situation, your loss could be very expensive to try to recover. Unfortunately, recovery is not always possible. Here’s an...

Spyware is rapidly becoming a major problem for Internet users. It is estimated that 9 out of 10 computers are infected with spyware or ad ware or both. Spyware may be responsible for 50 % of all computer crashes. Spyware runs silently and you may not be aware that your every move on the Internet is being observed and recorded. If a user does not detect and remove spy ware from his computer, all his files may get infected and it may stop working. All his passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information may be stolen before he can realize what is going on. Once spyware has ...

Did you ever want to erase everything on your computer? This is a program I found that does that for you quickly and easily. Active@ KillDisk is a hard drive eraser and is powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. Its a hard drive and partition eraser utility. If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or DELETE standard operating system command for data removal, there is always a chance to recover deleted data (using undelete file or some data recovery ...

Spyware has boomed into the top internet threat in no time and it continues to affect more computer users each day. Spyware is best described as a rogue application that latches to your system so it can record personal information and monitor internet usage. As spyware has grown it has become much easier to be infected with it. In some instance computer can be infected with spyware just by visiting the wrong web site. Most spyware is installed without the users knowledge. The most serious form of spyware comes as keyloggers which record each keystroke made on an infected computer. Each ...

Data loss is an expensive reality. It’s a hard fact that it happens more often then users like to admit. A recent study by the accounting firm McGladrey and Pullen estimates that one out of every 500 data centers will experience a severe computer disaster this year. As a result, almost half of those companies will go out of business. At the very least, a data loss disaster can mean lost income and missed business opportunities. The other side of data loss is the psychological and emotional turmoil it can cause to IT managers and business owners. Despair, panic, and the knowledge th...

One beep from your computer at startup can make your whole day. Just ask anyone that has turned on the PC and suffered the agony of several beeps and then nothing. When you purchase a computer, it will arrive with the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), pre-installed on an EPROM (Erasable Programmable read Only Memory), chip on the main/motherboard. When you start your computer the CPU (Central Processing Unit), sends control of the PC to the EPROM BIOS. The BIOS is part of the POST (Power-On Self Test) of the computer. Once the BIOS receives the go ahead from the processor it starts its ...

Starting a home based business is a fantastic way to earn additional income part time or full. You can build a six figure or higher residual income using your home computer and a few hours of your spare time each week. It is estimated that each day nearly 200,000 new people log on to the internet for the first time. Many of these people looking for a home based business. Some of these people will go on to create a full time income equal to or exceeding their current pay from their jobs. You need very little capitol to start a home businesses and you can work the hours that are best for y...

Phishing (definition) (FISH.ing) pp. Creating a replica of an existing web page or HTML email input form to fool a user into submitting personal, financial, or password data. adj. Today phishing seems to be one of the most serious new scams on the Internet. Now hackers and spamming companies not only bother you with thousands of unwanted emails each day but also, you might be the victim of a phishing attack! Phishing refers to the activity by hackers who simulate a legitimate organization and use e-mails to persuade people to share their personal and private financial data. No, this is ...

Imagine this nightmare scenario… You check your e-mail program and it reports your username and password as no longer valid. You call your Internet service provider (ISP) to discuss the problem and they tell you they turned off your account due to “abuse”. “Abuse!” you cry to the customer service operator, “What are you talking about?” “Someone used your computer this past Saturday night in an attempt to hack into a government computer system. They made the attempt at 1:20 a.m. from your account,” replies the rep. “Look in your...

Recently one of my friends asked me to check out if his computer was infected by virus. He suspected because occasionally the computer was shut down automatically when connected to internet. My first thought was the Sasser worm 60 seconds auto count-down. As he uses Windows 98 second edition with IE5, the virus must be a Sasser variant. I’m not network security expert but I know some basic things he must do to protect his home PC. It was a shock when he told me that his 4 years old PC had no protection except McAfee anti-virus. Bought in 2000 and no Windows service packs had been ...